Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.

Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or merely allowed to languish, then the gift turns against us, and we suffer.

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.